Education Research Analyst

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About the Position: This position is located at: Department of Defense Education Activity DoDEA Americas, Americas Southeast District, Fort Benning, GA Description of the Working Environment: Work is performed in an office setting.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Current Competitive Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Civilian Employee Current Excepted Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Employee Current Excepted Service Department of Defense Employee Current Excepted Service Employee Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee Executive Order (E.O.) 12721 Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Postal Service/Peace Corps and Other Unique Authorities Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Minimum Education Requirement: A Master's degree in the field of Education.

Degree must have included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours in a field related to the work of the position to be filled (such as statistics, data collection, data analysis, data reporting, research methods, etc.), of which at least one course was in research methods and at least two courses were in statistics.

The course work must have been completed at or accepted by a regionally accredited U.S. college or university.

The undergraduate/graduate course work must have included study in at least three of the following five areas: 1.

Learning theory, psychology of learning, educational psychology: Study of learning theories as they relate to the systematic design, development, and validation of instructional material. 2.

Instructional design practices: Study of the principles and techniques used in designing training programs, developing design strategy and models, and applying design methods to the improvement of instructional effectiveness.

3.

Educational evaluation: Study of the techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of instructional/educational programs, including developing written and performance tests and survey instruments, and determining reliability and validity of evaluation instruments.

4.

Instructional product development: Study of the techniques appropriate for developing training materials, including identifying learner characteristics, specifying objectives, applying training strategy, validating training materials, and evaluating training.

5. Computers in education and training: Study of the application of computers in education and training.

Specialized Experience Requirements (5 years): Specialized experience is experience gained while applying research principles and methods that required broad and thorough knowledge of one or more scientific fields or interdisciplinary areas to educational research work and experience in teaching, educational research, development of educational materials and aids, educational testing, educational administration, or comparable activities in an elementary and/or secondary school, a research contractor that partners with systems, state education system, federal education agency, and/or higher education level, which has clearly demonstrated success in the application of principles, methods, and techniques of education and familiarity with current developments in PreK-12th grade education, training and research.

Professional Licensure/Certification Requirement: None You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Attention to Detail Computer Literacy Data Analysis Partnering Research Major Duties:

• Develop and maintain large scale databases for DoDEA.
• Perform quantitative data analysis tasks (such as moving and combining datasets from different platforms; cleaning, aggregating data, and analyzing data) for DoDEA educational project/program development.
• Perform qualitative data analysis tasks {such as coding and analyzing data in Qualitative Data Analysis software (such as NVivo) for DoDEA educational project/program development.
• Create, collect, analyze and interpret quantitative and qualitative data for DoDEA.
• Analyze statistical reports to enable DoDEA leadership to make strategic decisions.
• Provide recommendations for improvement to DoDEA leadership based on collected data.
• Conduct research and relate it to educational issues.
• Combine data in commonly used data software tools (such as Microsoft Excel) for review/fluency.
• Verify the integrity of DoDEA data collection (which includes classroom observations, focus groups, interviews, and assessment data).